Which 1080Ti?

[Andreas Lilja]

Pretty self-explanatory title. All I know is that apparently the two tier 1 brands are EVGA and ASUS. 

 

I'm looking at something that stays cool and quiet mostly. Looks & overclocking abilities (sensors, etc) is not important to me. FTW3 seems interesting, since with the 3 fans I assume it fills my requirements. It's only launching on May 1st, tho. Probably going to be back-ordered in the first weeks too. Not a deal-breaker... but. 

 

Anything else I should be looking at? Or FTW3 it is?

 

 

 

[Aereldor]

Following the trend, the STRIX card may be the best variant- it has been for this generation of cards so far, although they usually come at a premium. You certainly can't go wrong with the FTW3 ICX, though.

 

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, Raskolnikov said:

Pretty self-explanatory title. All I know is that apparently the two tier 1 brands are EVGA and ASUS. 

 

I'm looking at something that stays cool and quiet mostly. Looks & overclocking abilities (sensors, etc) is not important to me. FTW3 seems interesting, since with the 3 fans I assume it fills my requirements. It's only launching on May 1st, tho. Probably going to be back-ordered in the first weeks too. Not a deal-breaker... but. 

 

Anything else I should be looking at? Or FTW3 it is?

 

 

 

Strix. As mentioned in my other post

 

[StormEye]

ASUS 1080ti Strix is available for pre-order right now, if you know who to contact. Its coming out near mid-April or slightly earlier.

 

EVGA 1080ti FTW3 is coming out May.

 

Just an FYI, in case you would like to know the date its going to be released.

[EOZ]

Go for MSI Gaming X it's the best cooler in market, in terms of noise/temperature ratio. It's definitely quieter than EVGA FTW3 and Asus Strix. Gigabyte card I will not even mention becouse they always are laud as hell and looks kinda cheap.

[IceCold008]

Do yourself a favour. Take a look at ALL aftermarket cards from all companies and. Pick the one which suits your price tag and looks. I myself have used gigabyte cards all my life. Nothing wrong with them at all even years after the warranty has run out. They overclock great and the temps are good. But that my opinion. People will have there fav cards and swear to them like flies to a dog pile "LOL". Pick which suits you. Simple

[JabroniBaloney]

Wait for reviews of real world performance? 

[Andreas Lilja]

32 minutes ago, EOZ said:

Go for MSI Gaming X it's the best cooler in market, in terms of noise/temperature ratio. It's definitely quieter than EVGA FTW3 and Asus Strix. Gigabyte card I will not even mention becouse they always are laud as hell and looks kinda cheap.

I looked at Guru3D's reviews and there doesn't seem to be a even a minor difference between the two. 2 degrees and 1 decibel. 

[EOZ]

34 minutes ago, Raskolnikov said:

I looked at Guru3D's reviews and there doesn't seem to be a even a minor difference between the two. 2 degrees and 1 decibel. 

Ok and now look at VRAM temperatures. MSI has more headroom for safe overclocking and even then it's smaller and little bit quieter. Even with only 2 fans MSI Gaming gets better results than Asus Strix with 3 fans. It shows that this cooler is very efficient.

 

MSI Gaming X  ~ 83.4C

Asus Strix ~ 89.3C

 

[AnalogCanavity]

STRIX

[reniat]

I'll likely be getting a pair of FTW3 iCXs, mostly because i'll be going for a high OC and the extra power phases and extra thermal sensors would be helpful enough that I can justify the extra ~$40. If i wasn't doing a water loop (aka cooling doesn't affect choice), and I wasn't going to be plasti-dipping the backplates anyway, I might go for the strix just due to the RGB backplate. 

[Andreas Lilja]

So any news on the top dog? Read somewhere that a benchmark (Tweaktown?) contradicted the claim (Guru3d) that MSI Gaming X was slightly better than the Strix?

 

 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Raskolnikov said:

So any news on the top dog? Read somewhere that a benchmark (Tweaktown?) contradicted the claim (Guru3d) that MSI Gaming X was slightly better than the Strix?

I'd personally never get Msi over Asus to be honest

[Deli]

3 minutes ago, Raskolnikov said:

So any news on the top dog? Read somewhere that a benchmark (Tweaktown?) contradicted the claim (Guru3d) that MSI Gaming X was slightly better than the Strix?

 

 

They only tested one card each. There is a thing called sample variation.

[Andreas Lilja]

45 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I'd personally never get Msi over Asus to be honest

 

Why so?

 

[Princess Luna]

1 hour ago, Raskolnikov said:

 

Why so?

 

My brother once bought MSi for motherboard and the board came dead, had to RMA it when the new one arrived the BIOS was trash and had to be updated, all Asus motherboards I bought though have never given me any issue what so ever, in fact I have an old one running an Intel Core2Duo by today all fine.

 

My boyfriend's cousin had issues with his MSi Gaming X 1080, the card had really crappy silicon and couldn't OC at all, my old EVGA Titan X Maxwell could reach its gaming potential.

 

Just personal experiences I am aware of while with Asus I don't really have any bad story about them, and my mom even uses an Asus zenfone

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

My brother once bought MSi for motherboard and the board came dead, had to RMA it when the new one arrived the BIOS was trash and had to be updated, all Asus motherboards I bought though have never given me any issue what so ever, in fact I have an old one running an Intel Core2Duo by today all fine.

 

My boyfriend's cousin had issues with his MSi Gaming X 1080, the card had really crappy silicon and couldn't OC at all, my old EVGA Titan X Maxwell could reach its gaming potential.

 

Just personal experiences I am aware of while with Asus I don't really have any bad story about them, and my mom even uses an Asus zenfone

Considering that a 980ti can't even reach the speeds of a stock 1080.... Also that is just bad luck on the MSI motherboards.

 

Wait for reviews of the ICX 1080ti before buying OP. Check Guru3D. Really solid articles.

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, Hunter259 said:

Considering that a 980ti can't even reach the speeds of a stock 1080.... Also that is just bad luck on the MSI motherboards.

My EVGA Superclocked Titan X on air manages 1581mhz on coreclock, with it's better scaling it reached the GTX 1080 stock level, which I literally did, it isn't something I read somewhere, this isn't about Maxwell vs Pascal though.

 

Also I was just telling him personal experience why'd I avoid buying MSi when Asus has "good enough" offering already, it is not like he'll lose sleep over 1Cª or 1fps or 1dB etc... all these cards should be excellent choices.

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

My EVGA Superclocked Titan X on air manages 1581mhz on coreclock, with it's better scaling it reached the GTX 1080 stock level, which I literally did it isn't something I read somewhere.

 

Also I was just telling him personal experience why'd I avoid buying MSi when Asus has "good enough" offering already, it is not like he'll lose sleep over 1Cª or 1fps or 1dB etc... all these cards should be excellent choices.

That Titan X is very far from average. I was thinking it was a normal 1400~. ~1600 I can believe that it's 1080 speed. Although the MSI card does have better VRAM temps which is nice.

[Andreas Lilja]

I did read bad things about MSI when it comes to coil whine, at least for 10** series. 

 

As for EVGA, I'm considering it. However release date is quite far.

 

Not really a fan of overclocking or aesthetics. Just want something cool and quiet.

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

6 minutes ago, Raskolnikov said:

I did read bad things about MSI when it comes to coil whine, at least for 10** series. 

 

As for EVGA, I'm considering it. However release date is quite far.

 

Not really a fan of overclocking or aesthetics. Just want something cool and quiet.

Well shit they will all do that really well but not overclocking is just throwing away free performance.

[Princess Luna]

9 minutes ago, Hunter259 said:

That Titan X is very far from average. I was thinking it was a normal 1400~. ~1600 I can believe that it's 1080 speed. Although the MSI card does have better VRAM temps which is nice.

Yes I did find an old SS of it, I tweaked a bit more on (ironically) MSi Afterburner and managed to add another 10mhz on the core clock stable after I installed it on the new Ryzen System:

 

8 minutes ago, Raskolnikov said:

Not really a fan of overclocking or aesthetics. Just want something cool and quiet.

FTW3 is considerably quiet, though so it is the Strix, honestly as long as you leave it on stock clocks you really won't have temperature/noise issues with any of the two any ways... but it is desirable to at least OC a bit, just pick the one suits your aesthetic better or cheaper, that is one thing I can't say about that Titan X above there, that thing on max load is jet engine but what can I do... I love Founders Edition cards

[MCCOPRA]

just get a FE card and be happy you can manually set the fan to be inaudible and be happy its even cheaper same or better overclocker and up to custom water cooling if you go extreme later. also they are more compact than other partner cooler cards.

[XDXD_4U3IF1P]

I have a MSI Gaming X 1080ti coming next week, I have the same in 1070 and was very impressed with it.
 

 

[reniat]

20 minutes ago, MCCOPRA said:

just get a FE card and be happy you can manually set the fan to be inaudible and be happy its even cheaper same or better overclocker and up to custom water cooling if you go extreme later. also they are more compact than other partner cooler cards.

I'm not entirely sure FE is going to consistently oc higher than partner cards with more power phases. There's a chance any given card is a better overclocker than any other given card, but i would bet if you took 100 high end custom cards and 100 FE cards and maxed out each, the avg clock from the partner card set is going to be slightly higher.